The 2022 Performance Report of the Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences

This is an annual performance report of Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences (MJMS) for the year 2022. This report presents data pertaining manuscript submissions to MJMS and its performances are presented in various form of views.


Introduction
The Editorial Office presents report on the performance of the Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences (MJMS) throughout the year 2022.Data of new manuscript submissions and other information were extracted from the manuscript submission platform and other databases.

Submission Trend of New Manuscripts
Over the years, MJMS received an overwhelming number of manuscript submissions.However, the submission of new manuscripts to MJMS in 2022 had declined 9.5% compared to the preceding years (1,2).Figure 1 shows the submission trend throughout the COVID-19 era in 2020 until 2022.This declination is perceived to be the situation of returning back to the norm after an unexpected enormous number of submissions happened during the COVID-19 outbreak throughout the years 2020 and 2021.

Submission Pattern by Manuscript Type
As usual, Original Article manuscript is the type of manuscript mostly submitted to MJMS followed by Review Article manuscript.This proves that there are a great number of research works being done on the new topic of interests that eventually contributed to the original findings, results and data which then being presented and authored in the Original Article manuscript.

The 2022 Performance Report of the Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences
Nour AzimAh Zulkapli1 , Jafri Malin AbdullAh As shown in Figure 2, the submission of Original Article manuscripts had decreased by 5.8% in 2022 compared to submissions in 2021.The decrement of submission also happened to other manuscript types except Review Articles where there was a slight increment of 2.8% in 2022 compared to the submission in 2021.

Submission Pattern of New Manuscripts in Percentage by Year and Month
In regard to the percentage of new manuscript submissions by year and month, the highest was 10.9% in April compared to other months in 2022 and 2021.The comparison of submission patterns by month and year of the preceding years is shown in Figure 3. Editorial | MJMS 2022 performance report Data extracted from the system shows that the rejection rate for a total of 682 manuscripts with a decision dated in 2022 was 85.3%, 79.5% (606 manuscripts) in 2020 and 80.1% (700 manuscripts) in 2021.

Contribution by Institution
Figure 4 shows the comparison of manuscript contribution counts in 2022 among local higher institutions in Malaysia.This data was generated based on the author's input during manuscript submission to the journal's system.
The School of Medical Sciences Health Campus of Universiti Sains Malaysia has dominated the list followed by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Putra Malaysia and the Pulau Pinang Campus of Universiti Sains Malaysia.

Journal Impact Factor
The JIF of MJMS for the year 2022 is 1.4.This metric is based on the latest Journal Citation Reports (2023) by Clarivate Analytics and calculated from data indexed on the Web of Science Core Collection where 168 citable manuscript titles were the contributing items to this JIF score.

Contributions by Country
Manuscript contribution to MJMS was exclusively led by Malaysia.Table 1 shows the acceptance of manuscript from Malaysia and other main countries in the most three recent years between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2022.Despite the huge number of manuscripts respectively submitted by each country, the percentages of rejection are also considered high.